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Another problem with SATA

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daragon

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I have a slight problem and am amazed at my inability to know what the hell is going on. I am a hardware guy, software isn't my thing.

Back Story:
I was overclocking my AMD 64 a few days ago. I got it to a decent speed, about 2GHz( .2GHz above normal) and tried to boot into windows to test it. Well windows hung on the startup screen, so I rebooted. I reset my BIOS and decided to forget about OCing. Well, to late, I my SATA HD wouldn't boot. I said dammit and pulled out my old IDE HD and booted from it. I tried to access my SATA HD to burn my stuff off of it so I could format it. I found that it was corrupted, so I scheduled a disk check and rebooted. It found a ton of cuorrupted lines and files and 'repaired' them all. For kicks I tried to boot from it, it did, haza, but it lost a few .dll's so windows wouldn't load, dam. I threw in my IDE HD again and burned off all the stuff I wanted.
Current problem:
I have my SATA HD alone in the system, and am trying to load windows on it. I boot from my windows CD and start setup. I press F6 to load SCSI drivers, and tell it to load the XP SATA drivers. it say's ok, and continues setup. About 30sec after formatting my HD, it comes up with an error that a file cannot be coppied and I should make sure my Windows CD is in. The file is VIAMRAID.sys. For kicks I tried skipping the file. It comes up immediatly that it can't copy VIAMRAID.ini, and 1 more file called VIAMRAID.something. after those files it continues like it should and acts like it's working. I have never let it get much farther than that. Does anyone know why it is doing this, or if it will work after skipping VIAMRAID.*? What should I do?
 
You need to put the F6 floppy back in the drive for the very first part of the GUI phase of the install, where it is copying files. You may need to take it out between the text phase and GUI phase so your system does not try to erroneously boot from the floppy when setup restarts the computer, but it does need to be there for at least the beginning of the GUI phase. VIAMRAID.* is for a Via RAID controller...Are you on a K8T800 Pro board by chance?
 
hey Doug, I read a few post by you in researching this problem, lol

No, I am running and ASUS A8V-E deluxe. I don't see the system reboot at all between when I tell it what driver to load and when it errors. I did notice that if the floppy is in when I try to boot it say's NTLDR is missing. SO, I let it boot from the CD, then I put the disk in. After that I don't take the disk out before it errors, should I?
 
... Which is a Via K8T800 Pro + VT8237mobo, so yes you are on a K8T800 Pro system. If it is giving these errors in the text phase of the install (before the setup reboot), then I'd make sure that the floppy with your F6 drivers is not corrupt. Try another disk and/or floppy drive, or slipstreaming your SATA drivers onto your XP Install CD (Google for more info on this). Good luck!
 
Hmmm, I don't have a 2nd floppy drive, so I decided to slipstream my XP CD. I got through the process of slipstreaming it without any problems, but now to the burning. I can't get Nero Express to burn a proper boot CD. You have any experience with this?
 
On the Bootable CD Project properties, on the boot tab, you need to point to the MS Boot Loader image file, with No Emulation, 4 loaded sectors, and start at 07C0 in Hex. A program called ISOBuster has a free trial that you can use to extract the boot loader from your retail disk. After this, you should be able to burn the CD and make it bootable. Google for more info on the procedure of makign a bootable XP install disk, the info I gave here should put you on the right track.
 
I found a tutorial on how to slipstream, and I extracted the image file. The problem was that nero express assumes you're an idiot and wont let you specify your own image file. I found another tutorial though, and a program called nlite. It's made so that not even express can screw it up. It allows you to burn an image of your bootable CD, and allows you to change all those lovely settings. Then you just burn that image to a CD using express. I'm at work now, so I'll try it when I get home. Thx for all the help.
 
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